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how is it that such an occurrence can occur?

how is it that such an occurrence can occur?

so there it was: Emerson filled the remaining $15.06 needed on top of the cheap plastic pretend play doctor kit... how is it possible?

congressman Ritchie Torres and the rational left

"anyone who fails to see the fundamental moral difference between those two realities is profoundly confused, and those of us on the rational left should be at the forefront of combating that kind of moral nihilism and confusion."

Thucydides, Book 4

Thucydides, Book 4

a petition to preserve Spartan dignity in misfortune takes us back to Solon's warning

cruise to alaska

cruise to alaska

just returned from a 7-night Disney Cruise to Alaska. When two toddlers and their tantrums are involved, my small Sony A7Cii with the tiny 24mm prime turns out to be too much to carry.

Celeste was born to sing Mi Enfermedad

Celeste was born to sing Mi Enfermedad

and that's because this song was inspired and written for Celeste, and our Argentinian Janis Joplin was born to sing this song. Am I not right?

history's first (and grandest) funeral oration

history's first (and grandest) funeral oration

an answer, perhaps the answer, to "what we fight for?", "what we die for?" and, most importantly "what we live for?"

the non-linearity of having kids in quick succession

non-linear effects and negative convexity can be described and explained using different methods. Depending on the method used, a different level of understanding is attained.

"daily standard deviation of 1% moves 1% a day" - not so

In the financial markets, the definition of volatility is assumed to be standard deviation. However, in practice, people seem to either forget the definition or completely substitute it with the mean absolute deviation. For example...

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